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Posted: 10/1/2021 2:54:29 PM EDT
[#1]
Armed shopping.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:01:22 PM EDT
[#2]
In my younger days I was known to take the screen off the window in the spare bedroom - sit in a comfy chair with a cup of coffee and a rifle. Took many deer at less than 30 yds. Also squirrel and dove out of the pecan trees shooting 22 CB caps. The joys of living on your own property. Too damn old now.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:03:57 PM EDT
[#3]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Armed shopping. If there ain't no doors or cash register, it ain't a store and there ain't no shopping. 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:09:30 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This is where I'm at with it. Everybody has their own preferred way of hunting, for their own very personal reasons. Everybody gets something different out of it, and what they're doing reflects that. I'm only ever annoyed, when a sanctimonious asshole declares from on high that his preferred way of doing it is the only way, and the way you're doing it is an affront to Jesus, Mom, and apple pie. It's obnoxious. ^^^^^^^^^ Boom! Headshot! (Many) Longbow guys shit on the recurve guys, who shit on the compound guys, then they ALL shit on the crossbow guys. (Many) Flintlock guys shit on the inline guys, or really about anyone who hasn't built their own rifle. (Many) Thutty thutty toters shit on anything that is black, looks even remotely modern and doubles nicely for self defense. Bait vs No bait. Comfortable stand vs Still hunting. Etc., etc, etc... Hunting/Harvesting, whatever anyone wants to call it is fading away. Every possible opportunity for anyone to participate is a good thing. To hell with the fuddites and their bullshit, self described rules. Run what ya brung and quit trying to chase people away from the sport because their chosen tool doesn't meet your self proclaimed benchmark of "Ethical" or some other arbitrary difficulty factor you pulled out of your arrogant ass. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:12:58 PM EDT
[#5]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Well, I have read peoples hunting stories of the recently released from a pen, 'wild' game eating from a feeder and the 'hunter' shoots from inside a structure with a roof, a heater, and a padded chair. Texas! |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:15:06 PM EDT
[#6]
Quote HistoryQuoted: +1 Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: It’s not a hunt so much as a harvest. +1 +2 I have no qualms with either, but it isn't hunting. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:16:12 PM EDT
[#7]
Just sounds like luxury hunting to me.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:17:14 PM EDT
[#8]
I can do the same from my deck sitting in an easy chair.
No, I wouldn't call that hunting when they walk 10 yards from the house. ZFG, I just want the meat. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:22:32 PM EDT
[#9]
Quote HistoryQuoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:23:30 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Same. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:24:58 PM EDT
[#11]
Of course. It’s a wild animal. The fact that you know a good spot, and it happens to be by your house, changes nothing about whether it’s “real” hunting.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:24:59 PM EDT
[#12]
It’s not what I have ever envisioned as hunting, but whatever works I guess.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:25:59 PM EDT
[#13]
Yeah it is, cause now you get to work, cleaning it.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:26:56 PM EDT
[#14]
Noice, congrats.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:32:02 PM EDT
[#15]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How much land? PM me your address... Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer.  From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:33:28 PM EDT
[#16]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard.  Trying another pic. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:35:50 PM EDT
[#17]
I hope to someday have that convenience.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:36:23 PM EDT
[#18]
also 9/10 little on the rare side
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:40:03 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:43:11 PM EDT
[#20]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:47:05 PM EDT
[#21]
Deer are very easy to kill. In general, it is good to take out some does to balance the herd, and properly processed and cooked, the meat is fine table fare.
Using what I call woodcraft (finding and analyzing sign: feeding/bedding areas, trails, footprints, rubs, scrapes, cover, etc) to locate a particular animal and come up with an effective strategy to bag him on a big piece of free-range property is more my kind of hunting. I don't care or judge how others hunt - as long as it is legal where they are. YMMV |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:47:05 PM EDT
[#22]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. That looks like my yard as load my truck to drive 3 hours to deer hunting.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:47:52 PM EDT
[#23]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? You want to come to Kansas, that’s where the big bucks are. Just be sure to bring $600 for a non-resident deer tag! |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:48:38 PM EDT
[#24]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. @DeathHates Nice place, bro. 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:51:40 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryQuoted: This is where I'm at with it. Everybody has their own preferred way of hunting, for their own very personal reasons. Everybody gets something different out of it, and what they're doing reflects that. I'm only ever annoyed, when a sanctimonious asshole declares from on high that his preferred way of doing it is the only way, and the way you're doing it is an affront to Jesus, Mom, and apple pie. It's obnoxious. Yup. Some days I hunt miles from any road out of a backpack. Some days I hunt less than 100 yards from the house. Some days that’s with a recurve. Some days that’s with a crossbow. I’m debating hunting out of my hot tub on the patio this year. Bottom line I hunt however is successful, legal, ethical, and enjoyable to me. Nothing I hate more than the purist crowd who thinks their way is the only way. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:51:55 PM EDT
[#26]
I will kill a deer this year from my office or my bedroom this year
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:53:55 PM EDT
[#27]
The last several years, I deer hunt only during the gun season and always from the same stand on the same property. More often than not, on opening day I take my seat before sunrise, shoot a deer before 11:00 am, and kick deer around for the other guys after lunch. It's hunting, but it's not the same style of hunting that I did when I was young.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:55:28 PM EDT
[#28]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That looks like my yard as load my truck to drive 3 hours to deer hunting. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. That looks like my yard as load my truck to drive 3 hours to deer hunting. Ur silly ?? |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 3:56:38 PM EDT
[#29]
Quoted: You want to come to Kansas, that’s where the big bucks are. Just be sure to bring $600 for a non-resident deer tag! Quoted: @DeathHates Nice place, bro. There's much larger bucks around. Thanks. I know Kansas has some monsters. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:01:00 PM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:01:34 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryQuoted: There's much larger bucks around. Thanks. I know Kansas has some monsters. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: You want to come to Kansas, that’s where the big bucks are. Just be sure to bring $600 for a non-resident deer tag! Quoted: @DeathHates Nice place, bro. There's much larger bucks around. Thanks. I know Kansas has some monsters. Definitely some dandy bucks coming out of Oklahoma too. More and more every year. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:01:37 PM EDT
[#32]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That stand looks it be about 4 feet off the ground... 14 to the seat, 12 at the feet |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:02:11 PM EDT
[#33]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Armed shopping. lol |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:03:53 PM EDT
[#34]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? They do have a season… |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:08:51 PM EDT
[#35]
Quote HistoryQuoted: They do have a season… Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? They do have a season… How do I tell Mrs. DV8 I now need a Barrett .50cal? |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:14:06 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryQuoted: How do I tell Mrs. DV8 I now need a Barrett .50cal? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? They do have a season… How do I tell Mrs. DV8 I now need a Barrett .50cal? I would think that the $3,000,000 bounty on Bigfoot’s head would suffice.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:14:25 PM EDT
[#37]
Bow season starts Monday.
I have 2 buck tags and 3 doe tags and I hope I get at least 1. Hunting here is hard, very thick coastal location and the does bed in the salt marsh and the bucks everywhere else. Trails are everywhere and oaks are everywhere and so are wild grapes. They are tough to pattern, impossible really, there are no choke points and food and bedding is everywhere. The deer pattern the stands and I pattern the stands and hunt in spots with a ghost blind where there aren't very many trees that can take a stand or with very little clearing. Everybody else is looking over the primary scrape areas and I try to put myself in the staging areas of the primary scrape areas or the lone oak tree on a high spot in the marsh grass. my longest shot so far has been 22 yards, shortest one 9 yards. it is close quarters hunting on the ground with a bow. Challenging is the word for it, but that is all that is available. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 4:44:00 PM EDT
[#38]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: No license required to hunt my own land here. Same. How much land? PM me your address... Only 17 acres, but it's all wooded. Lots of deer. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/468452/20210923_190936-2113664.jpg From the front porch yesterday evening. I don't shoot From the porch or house. I go in the woods and it's a totally different ballgame. They know. Many times I have come back in the evening from hunting and not seeing a single deer, and I spook them as I get to my yard. Loading up the travel trailer now. How long a drive from NC to Oklahoma? Gun season opener is November 20th. Come at least a day early. Spare bedroom with a full bath is yours. Might take me that long to get there. LOL. Any samsquatches? The wood devils stay away, but the house is well lit at night. Occasional odd screams are heard in the night.  Not to be confused with the war whoops from us locals. 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:04:54 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryAwwww, they’re like big rabbits.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:14:10 PM EDT
[#40]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Awwww, they’re like big rabbits. Quote HistoryQuoted: Awwww, they’re like big rabbits. About 15 minutes ago.. 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:17:20 PM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Shooting deer over bait is not hunting. I call it harvesting. Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: Tell me about it, I can hardly bring myself to do it anymore. I go out and broadcast 2 bags of corn all over the pasture and they still come steal corn out of the feeder, in the front yard LOL https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/384690/CBF2545B-5EE3-44CB-B1D7-384D3DF12DA7_png-2113502.JPG Shooting deer over bait is not hunting. I call it harvesting.  Attached FileThat's what you took from my post? You ASSumed that I shoot deer out the front door? I spend more on feeding deer YEAR ROUND than most spend feeding cattle. I provide minerals, corn, protein, alfalfa & water year round. When I hunt I put out a 100lbs of corn on a sendero and watch them for HOURS, I am not a "if it's brown it's down" guy, I do NOT get all jumpy and excited when the first deer pops out of the woods. When my family got this place 20yrs ago you'd be lucky to see A deer, now we have too many almost and are growing some really nice bucks. What yankees do with their deer drives and or just stomping thru the woods and shooting the first thing you see is not hunting to me, that's shooting. I take time and select a mature animal. Just because the northern states have fucked up "no bait" laws don't project that shit on Texas. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:19:45 PM EDT
[#42]
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:38:22 PM EDT
[#43]
 That’s deer harvesting |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:48:03 PM EDT
[#44]
My deer stand.....I just pull the truck up next to it, settle down behind my shooting bench and wait for the deer smorgasbord to start passing by.
 Attached FileI can kill them in the yard with a bow now if I want to but I'd be afraid they would haul ass across the busy road in back of my house (sorta down a hill) and cause a accident.
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:51:45 PM EDT
[#45]
Timely, I am 35 ft up 35 yards from my house waiting on the sun to give it a rest.
I honestly don't give a shit what people call it. |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:54:38 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Timely, I am 35 ft up 35 yards from my house waiting on the sun to give it a rest. I honestly don't give a shit what people call it, as long as they know the sound it makes when it takes a deer's life. FIFY |
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Posted: 10/1/2021 5:59:24 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryQuoted: FIFY Bow season here, super quiet till Oct 11th when the supressed smoke poles come out
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Posted: 10/1/2021 6:00:22 PM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bow season here, super quiet till Oct 11th when the supressed smoke poles come out Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: FIFY Bow season here, super quiet till Oct 11th when the supressed smoke poles come out Good luck
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Posted: 10/1/2021 6:01:44 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryQuoted: Bow season here, super quiet till Oct 11th when the supressed smoke poles come out Quote HistoryQuoted: Quoted: FIFY Bow season here, super quiet till Oct 11th when the supressed smoke poles come out I never thought about suppressing my TC Encore .50 smoke pole. Hmmmmmm.... 
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Posted: 10/1/2021 6:03:28 PM EDT
[#50]
Thanks! I call archery season "pregaming"
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